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Marble slab of Pharasmanes

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Material
  
Marble

Writing
  
Latin

Place
  
Ostia Antica

Size
  
795 x 942

Created
  
141 AD

Marble slab of Pharasmanes

Period/culture
  
Roman Empire Kingdom of Iberia

The Marble slab of Pharasmanes (Georgian: ფარსმანის მარმარილოს ფილა) is a fragmentary marble slab of Fasti Ostienses with Latin inscriptions found in Ostia Antica, near Ancient Rome. The slab inscription memorialises a state visit of King Pharasmanes II of Iberia to Rome with his son and wife upon invitation of Emperor Antoninus Pius, the visit also recorded into the History of Rome by Cassius Dio. The inscription is dated 141-144 or 142 AD, though recently it's more firmly dated to 141 AD to the consulship of namesake grandfather of Lucius Annius Fabianus who is mentioned in the inscription as FABIANVS. Additionally, Cyril Toumanoff instead of Pharasmanes II, identifies this Pharasmanes as King Pharasmanes III of Iberia, who was Pharasmanes II's grandson.

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